Sarpedones

Coin of Sarpedones. Diademed and draped bust left; tamgha before Rev Nike standing left, holding wreath and palm.
Coin of Sarpedones. Diademed and draped bust left Rev Nike standing right, holding wreath and palm.

Sarpedones was an Indo-Parthian king. He was one of the successors of Gondophares, together with Abdagases, Sases, Gondophares II, Sarpedones, Orthagnes and Pacores.[1] He may have ruled from Arachosia to Eastern Punjab.[1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 On the Cusp of an Era: Art in the Pre-Kuṣāṇa World, Doris Srinivasan, BRILL, 2007, p.255


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